§ Ms OsborneTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he intends to cap any Scottish local authorities this year. [46453]
§ Mr. DewarNo. All Scottish local authorities have set budgets for 1998–99 at or below the expenditure limits implied by the provisional capping principles which I announced on 3 December 1997,Official Report, columns 215–18, as part of the 1998–99 local government finance settlement.